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I switched to DDG as my default search everywhere a few months ago, and I recommend everyone does. The results are passable and when they aren't there is always !g
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This is the biggest turn off for me for the service. I use it, because I like it, but I really don't like the name.
If you use it, and like it, why does the name matter anymore? Is it an embarrassment thing?
duckduckgo have significantly changed the way i use the web. namely the bangs feature. simply put it's ingenious. https://duckduckgo.com/bang the search has improved in the past few years but when it fails i merely have to add a !g to the query.
The key for switching to DuckDuckGo for me was to set it as the default searchengine / startpage on all browsers. While the relevance of search results is slightly (noticable) worse than Google, I think the tradeoff between privacy VS result-quality is worth it. Thanks for making such a great product!
Hey Phil, DuckDuckGo employee here - Be sure to use the 'feedback' button that you find on the search results page whenever you feel a search isn't up to standards. Our team has been working hard at increasing relevancy, but the best changes come when users let us know what they need. Since we don't filter bubble results ( https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b... ) results certainly feel differ…
Still love you though!
For the team here at DuckDuckGo, we were excited not only to hit 14M searches in a single day but to also cross the threshold of 10B total private searches served. Of which 4B were from last year alone. We wrote a post covering it in our newly launched blog: https://spreadprivacy.com/10-billion-fc7808c91343 It is always an amazing and humbling moment when we hit a new milestone in our metrics. Our team is so incredib…
* The above landing page doesn't work (typing a query and pressing enter returns me back to the same page).
* Even if I manually enter a search URL like this https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=test it doesn't fully work (page navigation and requerying is broken).
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Google is basically a verb at this point. It's hard to tell people to DuckDuckGo it. GoDuck might be interesting. "GoDuck it."
You could return to the neutral non-branded term of 'search' it.